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Dell VPLEX vs Micro Focus Storage Operations Manager [EOL] comparison

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Dell VPLEX
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
19
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Storage Management (4th)
Micro Focus Storage Operati...
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
1
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Featured Reviews

Sayed Zuber - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Storage And Backup Engineer at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
It's an excellent solution for data mobility and disaster recovery, but the CLI can be difficult for beginners
Dell VPLEX currently requires Flash Player to access the GUI. It would be better to have a web-based HTML management interface. The encryption could also be improved. When the host writes data, it goes from VPLEX back to the physical storage. The physical storage device will do encryption or use an algorithm called Data Address Encryption. If there are vulnerabilities between the host and the storage device, you can lose your data. I suggest encrypting the data before it is sent from the host to the storage. I would also recommend using the NVM protocol in VPLEX. It still has Flash Player and a local SATA disk built into the Flash Player. You need to Flash the disk to SAS and then SATA. The NVM protocol is better.
reviewer1181289 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Services - Service Assurance Tools Consulting Lead at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Helpful support, useful AI, and reliable
We are using SNM Traps connectors to have all the events in Micro Focus Storage Operations Manager Micro Focus Storage Operations Manager could improve by having more parameters for storage. When you take the solution out of the box there need to be some more features built-in. I have been using…

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The capacity to migrate machines onto VPLEX is great — it's very clean. We can migrate machines and add arrays easily."
"We have see performance improvement in our databases."
"For a new application setup, it worked like a charm."
"The best part of the solution is the virtualization layer due to the fact that, for all our pain points during migration, we use the virtualization with VPLEX."
"The business continuity is sorted, as the data is in two data centers, i.e., readable and writable, and if one side goes down, there is no downtime and the other side continues non-disruptively."
"Dell's technical support is awesome. We received instant support from EMC as long as we had an active contract."
"With VPLEX, we are able to automate this process where failovers between sites now occur automatically."
"With the help of EMC VPLEX we simplified the architecture and improved the response time."
"The stability of the Micro Focus Storage Operations Manager is good."
 

Cons

"The administration is difficult, so we want to add hyper-converged infrastructure."
"The licensing model for enterprise storage (EMC VMAX) and integrating the solution into the actual storage frames instead of a separate product."
"I would like to have site-to-site replication capability for applications."
"Cost. This is really expensive."
"These are all pretty trivial for larger customers but VNXe as a main production storage array running a workload important enough to give it a multi-site stretched vSphere cluster is something I think is unlikely to be present in those customers."
"The initial setup is complex."
"VPLEX hardware migration to spare equipment in case of major disruption needs a huge effort that is not acceptable during disaster recovery."
"It needs to improve the thin reclaim on certain arrays."
"Micro Focus Storage Operations Manager could improve by having more parameters for storage. When you take the solution out of the box there need to be some more features built-in."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We struck a great deal with Dell EMC, so for us, VPLEX was not very expensive."
"VPLEX is a little bit expensive in my personal opinion."
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Dell VPLEX?
Some of the products are very easy to implement, while others are more difficult, and our team seeks support help when required. Regarding the integration part, the delivery team handles all integr...
What is your primary use case for Dell VPLEX?
We are implementing Cohesity, Hitachi, Dell, and Nutanix, VMware, vSAN; multiple products. We have recently started working with Cohesity because there was not much presence in India for Cohesity, ...
What advice do you have for others considering Dell VPLEX?
Hitachi Systems Microclinic has been renamed to Hitachi Systems India Private Limited. The email address has been changed to shailendra.chaudhry.hd at hitachi-systems.com from shailendra_singh.chau...
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